2028 headline: After billions spent over three years the investigation is now closed after finding no evidence of Bruce Springsteen being an illegal immigrant. Turns out that he was in fact born in the USA.
Don't know, I'm just here to state my absolute hate for the practice. Sure you don't write "A and B and C and D", but "A, B, C, and D".
However, "A, B" is absolutely awful.
I'm just gonna lazypaste what I wrote a while back about senators and congressmen backing Trump out of fear:
"Yup. This has been common among politicians for the past 10 years.
And the only takeaway should be that violence is the only consequence these fuckers fear, and is a viable strategy currently only deployed by one side of the political spectrum.
Where I grew up there was a russeknute for driving around the roundabout (there was only one) 20 times. Traffic was reasonably heavy during normal rush hours, but every May evening the obstructed traffic was other drives waiting for their turn to do their 20 laps.
Anything that does the job is good enough. At its core a server is just a regular PC with a dedicated purpose and software. Sure, there are specialized hardware better suitable and purpose built, but it's not a requirement.
I for one prefer 19" rackmount stuff with disk bays in the front, but that's more of a convenience than anything.
UPS is nice, but it'll work without it.
I've had to deal with the Brazilian computer market and how it's ridiculously overpriced due to import fees, so in your situation I'd just get any hand-me-down computer. Servers generally don't require much unless you're doing something special or intensive.
Get your hands on whatever you can find for free or dirt cheap (laptop or desktop doesn'tmatter), install linux, and you have a basic setup that you can work with. If your use case requires more, then that's something you can accommodate in the next iteration of your server.
I played Opposing Force back in the day, and I absolute loved it. By far my favorite. Blue shift was fun, but not even close.